The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-01-20
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.


OOmO0tlC NeW0s
The legislatures of Kansas, West Virgin
ia and Arkansas began session January II.
Gov. Ames, Of Massachusetts,, was twenty.
two minutes delivering his message to the
Bay State legislature.
Gen. W. B. Hazen, chief Signal Service
officer, died unexpectedly at Washington,
Sunday night Of diabetic coma.
$500 employees in the Lorillard tobacco
works 1T New York quit work on the 18th,
owing to proposed reduction Of wages.
During 1888, in different parts of the
country, 10 iron working establishments
were damaged by fire with total loss OF
8, AGO. 600, insurance only one third.
The Uuited States Senate in secret
session Monday passed . resolution advis-
ing the. President to enter upon negotiations
with Nicaragua for concessions Tor an in
ter-0ceanic canal.
Henry B. Stanton, the distinguished
journalist and lawyer, and tho husband of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, died Jan. IA, in
New York City, Of pneumonia. He was in
his eighty second year, and had been
writing for the newspapers sixty years.
The funeral Of John Roach, Thursday,
was conducted by Bishop Harris of the n.
e. church, and the interment was In the
Greenwood cemetery New York City. The
impressive occasion was attended by four
hundred employees of the Morgan iron works
and sixty-six leading citizens Of Chester,
Pennsylvania.
It Is reported that Secretary Manning
viii retire permanently from tho Treasury
department soon after the adjournment OF
Congress. His health makes this step Inn
perative, It not being materially improved,
and he il satisfied he II not consulting his
own welfare nor the wishes Of his tTuest
and best friends by continuing his duties 1t
the head OF the department.
The business failures for seven days end
ing January II, - reported by r. g. DUN
4 Co, number for the United States. 204 ];
for Canada %; total, e2S, against 100 last
weok and 273 tho week previous. This il
tho largest number reported In any week
s1psct.d at tbs Inn In tSe
ing week OF last year there were 8S2. The
Southern states furnished 1O7 this week,
about double tho average from that quar-
tor.
The great ship builder, John Roach died
Monday morning, 10th inst, It his home in
New York city, from cancer. His last hours
were not marked BY extreme suffering
When sixteen years Of age he came to the
United States and In the next three years
acquired the trade Of an engine builder,
becoming foremaa Of the Anaire works
at Jersey City, then the largest in the
country. With an adventurous spirit he soon
established himself with very small capt.
tai, but his old employers recommenda--
tions assisted him to . moderate credit, and
his natural force soon gave him prominence
In 1857 he was able to purchase the Morgan
Iron Works for about 100000 and in 1853
the Neptune Works for $500 and two
years later the Franklin Forge for SI25, 900,
and also large property at Chester, Pa,
whore he subsequently, put in operation the
extensive works known ~ the Delaware
River Iron Ship Building and Engine
Works, Of which corporation Mr.. Roach
was the President, and owner and became
tho builder of number of ships, for the
United States Government. In 1885 he
made an assignment from which his failing
health prevented recovery. His wife, sew
eral children and grandchildren survive
him.